Manage shared calendars on Mac
You can stop sharing, unpublish, and unsubscribe from calendars. You can also change what appears in a published calendar, make certain events private, and see what calendar accounts you have access to.
Stop sharing a calendar
Go to the Calendar app
on your Mac.
Do any of the following:
Stop sharing your calendar with specific people: Place the pointer over the calendar’s name in the calendar list, then click
. Click a person’s name, then press Delete.
Stop sharing your calendar with everyone: Control-click the calendar in the calendar list, then choose Stop Sharing.
Unpublish a calendar
Unpublished calendars aren’t deleted from your Mac.
Go to the Calendar app
on your Mac.
Click the name of the calendar or calendar group in the calendar list.
If you don’t see the calendar list on the left, choose View > Show Calendar List.
A published calendar has a Share Calendar button
next to its name.
Choose Edit > Stop Publishing.
After you unpublish a calendar, new users won’t be able to subscribe to it. Users who already subscribed to it see the last published copy until they delete it.
Unsubscribe from a calendar
Go to the Calendar app
Control-click the calendar in the calendar list, then choose Unsubscribe.
If you don’t see the calendar list on the left, choose View > Show Calendar List.
When unsubscribing from a calendar, you can also report it as junk. Reporting junk helps Calendar better identify junk subscriptions.
Change what appears in a published calendar
Go to the Calendar app
Click the name of the calendar or calendar group in the calendar list.
If you don’t see the calendar list on the left, choose View > Show Calendar List.
A published calendar has a Share Calendar button
Select items to publish, or deselect items you don’t want to publish.
See calendar accounts you have access to
Go to the Calendar app
Choose Calendar > Settings, then click Accounts.
Select the calendar account, then click Delegation.
A CalDAV account appears in the “Accounts I can access” list.
For an Exchange account, click
, then enter the user name of the person who gave you access.
To see a delegated account’s calendars in the main Calendar window, select Show.
To see a delegated account’s calendars in a new window, choose Window > [account name].
Make events private
If you have a shared calendar account, you can make private events that can’t be viewed by others.
Go to the Calendar app
Double-click or force click an event, then click the event’s date.
Select the Private checkbox.
If there is no Private checkbox, the event either has invitees or isn’t administered through a CalDAV or Exchange server.
Instead of sharing your entire account, you can share individual calendars.
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